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A. E. SYMMES.

FLOORING AND METHOD OF LAYING SAME.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 10. I915.

Bi/ilminaus binder .Slone 6/71/05 G/az/n'g Patented Aug. 8, 1916.

PHOTO-LITHO by SACKETTB WILHELMS CORF'. NY

' %AT FAN FFlf@-.'

AMEnrcUs E. SYMMES, or MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA.

FLOORING AND IVLZlil'lIFLOID OF LAYING SAME.

1,193, 43 Specification of Letters ra P t t d 3 1915,

Application filed September 10, 1915. Serial No. 49,992. I v

To all whom it may concern: completely inclosed in a shell of water glass. Be it known that l, Alvrnnroos E SYMr/ms, It is well known that this, material, after a citizen of the United States, and resident drying out of its solution, is insoluble and of the city of Montreal, in the Province of unaifected by almost any known chemical. co

5 Quebec and Dominion of Canada, have in- The dry'coated chips are now mixed with vented certain new and useful Improve, asphalt mastic in proportions varying from.

. mentsin; Flooring and Methods of Laying Y stone and asphalt to 55% stone. Same, of which the following is afull, clear, and 45% asphalt, and ,cooked in the well and exact description. known manner, at a temperature of from 1 This invention relates to improvements in 300 to 350 Fahrenheit, until the mass floors, and method of laying same, and the reaches the desired consistency, whereupon object of the invention is to provide a strong it is either molded into blocks for storage and durable crack, vermin and germproof and future use, or applied directly to the I floor. floor base, spread out into a layer of the de- 7 O 15 A further object is 'to provide a floor sired thickness, and compacted and leveled which will be absolutely waterproof. by rolling or tamping or both. When the A still further object is to provide a terasphalt has set hard, the surface of the nine floor consisting. of marble or other floor is polished oif with stones and water stone particles embedded in asphalt. I in' the well known manner, and when fin-, 5

20 The terrazzo .and mosaic floors at present ished, the result isthe exposure f the white in such general use, which are claimed to be or variously colored marble or stone chips water and germ proof, are not so strictly embedded in a black binder. .The percentspeaking, as the binding cement is to a cerage of stone in the mixture is varied chiefly tain degree pervious to moisture and thereaccording to the use to which the finished 25 fore equally pervious to germs. The floors floor will be subjected, and the desired hard are undoubtedly vermin proof, but can only. ness of same.

be-crack proof where thefoundation layer is In laying the floor, the material is laid free from cracks,'as there can be obviously on in two coats or courses, the lower of no appreciable elasticity in the hard bedding which may be thinner and applied at higher 80 cements used for the stone. chips. It has temperature, so as to obtain a perfect bond been realized that this susceptibility of with the under floor; which is usually a concracking could be overcome by" using a bed-. crete slab. In applying the upper course, ding cement such as asphalt, but this has care is taken to'have any joints between the heretofore been impracticable owing to the difi'erent patches of material occur on lines 85 fact that in cooking the mixture of asphalt" remote from similar joints in the lower H and stone, the asphalt oil would permeate 'course,'s o that in the event of a crack being i the stone chips, with the result that a floor started 1n either coat, it will not communimadeof this material would be of an u1 1- .cate itself through the other coat, as the sightly and muddy brown color.

4 By means of the process hereafter .disfectlyby reason of the nature of the mateclosed, I have overcome this great drawback, rial: This lower course may also be said and an enabled to produce a floor of marble -.to act as a buffer between the base floor and or other stone chips embedded in an asphalt the upper coat, so that the upper coat is binder, without injuring or altering the natrelieved of stresses incident to contraction 45 ural colors of the'stone chips. This result isand expansion inthe basefloor, so that the accomplishedby insulating eachstone chip completed floor will be substantiallycrackwith'a substance impervious to the asphalt.v proof at all -temperatures ranging from oil and unafiec'ted by the heat of cooking those below zero to approximately 150. the asphalt. It will thus be seen that the completed floor 1 The process of preparing material for is a homogeneous mass from lower to upper laying the floor consists first in submerging surface and from wallrto wall. "the pre iously screened and cleaned stone Having thus described my nvention,

chips in a suitable solution of water glass what I claim is or sodium silicate. The chips are then 1. A floor composed of individually dried by any suitable means,-- and when glazed stone chips embedded in an asphalt dried, it will be found that each chip is binder,

upper and lowercourses bond together per- 95 'ing material, stone chlps na'solutlon of sodium silicate,

2. floor composed of stone chips individually coated with material impervious to a phalt oils'and embedded in' an asphalt binder.

vidually coated with sodium silicate and embedded in an asphalt binder.

4. A process of. making floors and flooring material, which consists in coating stone ,chlps with an insoluble and impervious ma-.

terial, mixing the chips with a binder, and depositing the mixture in suitable form for setting,v

5. A process of making floors and flooring material, which consists in. covering stonechips with a coating of material impervious to asphalt oil, mixing the chips with; asphalt mastic, cooking the mixture, and depositing the mixture in suitable form for cooling and hardening,

6. A process of making floors, and floor which consists in submerging ,ing material, which drying the chips, mixing the chips with i v and ,25

phalt mastic, cooking the mixture, finally depositing the mixture in suitable form for coolingancl hardening. 3. A floor composed of stone chips indi- '7. A process of making floors and floorstone chips in an aqueoussolution of sodium silicate, drying the chips to form a coating on each individual chip impervious to asphalt oil, mixing the chips with asphalt mastic in a proportion of 4=5% to 55% chips to 55% to 45% asphalt, cooking the mixtureat a temperature of from 300 to 350 Fahrenheit,and finally compacting the mixture in suitable form for cooling and hardening." I i In witness whereof, I have hereuntoset my hand, in presence of two Witnesses.

AMERICUS E. SYMMES. Witnesses:

' C. W. TAYLOR,

' G.M. MORELAND.

consists in 'submerging. 

